A key meeting of Chhattisgarh Congress Working Committee will be held here on Wednesday to discuss strategy to counter former Chief Minister Ajit Jogi who formed a new political outfit after revolting from the Congress. Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) general secretary and Congress media cell chief Shailesh Nitin Trivedi informed that the State Congress Chief Bhupesh Baghel and leader of Congress legislature Party (ClP) TS Singhdeo will attend the meeting which is to be held here at party's state headquarters Congress Bhawan.
“Several key issues are on the agenda, issues related to the state Congress unit and forming a strategy as per the directives of party high command would be taken up for discussion,” he said. According to Trivedi the party office bearers, Members of Parliament, former MPs, sitting MlAs, former MlAs, Presidents of Congress Morcha Sangathan and Cells, over 200 PCC members, 32 district committees and 199 block congress committee Presidents, all Mayors of the Congress party, Presidents of urban bodies belonging to Congress party will take part in the meeting. Notably, the expansion of Congress working Committee (CWC) was pending for a long time. With exit of former Chief Minister Ajit Jogi and resignation of his supporters from Chhattisgarh Congress, several new faces are expecting to find place in the state working committee.